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FineWoven won't stand up to oil and dirt
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The idea that you can determine a materials durability by eyeballing it.
This website gets more ridiculous by the day…
This website gets more ridiculous by the day…
Sorry but that just looks terrible, and I noticed none of the fine woven cases look like the pictures on the box. The colors all look super dark and muddy like a Nintendo 64 texture. I can’t believe how terrible these cases look, like a Chinese knockoff or something you get in alibaba website for $1. really shocked apple released this product.
Got my blue Finewoven today. It is trash. The material feels cheap. I put it in my pocket a couple of times and lint would stick to the back each time. It's on the way back to Apple now.
If they wanted to go environmentally friendly, maybe "vegan" leather at least?...
If they wanted to go environmentally friendly, maybe "vegan" leather at least?...
I wish, that's a lot nicer. FineWoven is more of a soft cheap suede.
Well I received mine in the mail and held it in my hand and I determined it to be garbage. Is that enough for you?
This is already posted in the main iPhone 15 case thread, just horrible!
Unless they changed the program, AppleCare+ won’t cover the case. If you have AC on it they are more prone to help.
I’m sure it will hold up as well if not better than the leather because it’s plastic. It is probably also lighter than the leather case which in my book would be a win. Same level of protection only lighter. I guess the video proved me wrong. Shame on Apple.
It is worse than any of us could have imagined. It is a product they shouldn't even sell.
Sorry for the confusion. I was referring to protecting the phone a little better. I should have been more clear.
Ordered mulberry and evergreen - returning both.
To me, the colors didn’t match the website versions - they appear much more vibrant (not in a good way).
And, in hand, they feel like suede. Really cheap suede. One came scratched pretty badly out of the box. Not a fan.
To me, the colors didn’t match the website versions - they appear much more vibrant (not in a good way).
And, in hand, they feel like suede. Really cheap suede. One came scratched pretty badly out of the box. Not a fan.
You don’t like the feel of it, that speaks nothing to the topic at hand: Durability
Let’s try transporting gasoline in a paper bag! You’d be a fool to “eyeball” it and conclude it’s a bad idea, just as you’d be a fool to conclude a very fine woven fabric might not do well with stains and oils.
Yeah. It felt initially like one of those “fabric shower curtains” glued onto some cardboard.
Exactly what I said—the wallets slide right off the plastic case. Garbàge!
There’s a YouTube video out now that shows this case getting irreversibly scratched just by fingernails. This will probably go down as the least durable case Apple has ever made.
This is the MacRumors forums. They take no positivity or statement of goodwill at face value. ESPECIALLY from Apple for some weird reason.
I have it in Evergreen, will probably keep it but that is a really good description.. it's kinda like felt.
Correction: By eyeballing a picture online of the one somebody else bought.
I agree--ridiculous.
Perhaps part of the problem is that Apple has positioned this as the replacement for leather both in marketing and in price. First, you will have the diehard leather heads that will put their hands on it and instantly recoil in horror. Second, you will have people expecting a premium experience that get turned off by the build quality in general. Although......If I was Apple and planning a move from real leather to faux leather I would totally introduce some BS fabric thing in-between so that when I "bring back" the "pleather" everyone rejoices. Imagine the backlash from the purists if Apple had gone straight from real leather to faux.
I still think I am going to give this FineWoven an honest chance.
I still think I am going to give this FineWoven an honest chance.
Nice rant considering you haven't seen/touched the thing in person yet while countless people including myself have posted in this thread and have.
I didn't buy the leather cases before from Apple or any company so I wasn't hoping for that so you assumed wrong about me and likely others.
This case is awful. I looked at it and touched it with my own hands. I gave it an honest chance by ordering it. I'm all for helping the environment, but it has to be done in ways where you don't pay 60 bucks for a piece of garbage.
it's almost criminal Apple asks $69 for such a reall really bad quality case. Mindblowing
I bet it will cost Apple an overall ~ $2 per case production/distribution wise
Nope, this is just a B-grade AliExpress case, the FineWoven one from Apple